Zero Feet, Zero Inches

Zero Feet Zero Inches is a "datamosh" video employing open source material from historic footage hosted by at archive.org. This piece features a performance of Variations V by John Cage, with a dance elements by the Merce Cunningham Company. The West German television performance footage was juxtaposed with video from NASA Apollo missions.  

Variations V was originally composed as a mixed-media piece, involving contemporary dance movement, electronics, film, and distorted video images by Nam June Paik. Stan VanDerBeek also made major contributions to this staging, which debuted in the same period as early human space flight. Through the video Nohe desired to honor Variation V's experimental approach and  Cage's questioning of time itself, especially the notion that time could be made to stand still.  

The sound was created on a modular synthesizer, using recordings of John Cage as a foundational element. Video datamoshing and sound synthesis by Timothy Nohe.